I saw this blog post by photographer James Guerin and was absolutely enraptured with what he achieved. He modified an old 35mm Pentax camera into a “slit-scan” camera and achieved some amazing images, many of which are featured in his blog. You’ve seen “slit-scan” pictures before – horse racing fans will recognize the slit-scan images…
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“Photoshop” is not a curse word
About a year and a half ago, I was at an event where several photographers were showing off their work. I recognized the name of one of the photographers – he had competed in the St. Agnes Cemetery Photo Contest the year that I won with my Star Trails of St. Agnes Cemetery picture. “I…
Read MoreThe 4th of July in Ripscale
For the past five days, I’ve focused on one photographic goal. And I have less than 120 hours to create it. Challenge? I can handle a challenge. I eat challenges with my toast for breakfast. July 4, 2012. 2:00 p.m. – 120 hours to go. Here I am, like everyone else in the Capital District,…
Read MoreColoring outside the borders
In 1969, I attended first grade at Clarksville Elementary School (school number two of the “Twelve”). At the time, I didn’t understand why I wasn’t in first grade at Slingerlands Elementary School with the rest of my friends and neighbors – and why, for that fact, was I in a classroom with only six other…
Read MoreYou’ll have to wait for my fireworks photos.
I just want to give everyone a head’s-up … if you’re coming to my blog this morning, looking for some fireworks photos from the Empire State Plaza… You’ll have to wait a day or two. But I promise… it’ll be worth the wait. This was my fifth time photographing the fireworks at the Plaza, and…
Read More“Freeze… snap… twist… snap… screw… and GO!”
I’ve had success with my Prokudin-Gorskii photography technique, in which I photograph an item four times – while using colored filters for three of the pictures. In the past, the “items” were things like trees and buildings and stationary statuary. Now to step up my game. Now to use my technique on a person. This…
Read MoreThe Star Trails of Paradox Lake
The goal: capturing brilliant star trails, the curved streaks across the evening sky, using only my film cameras. I’ve captured them in the past with my digital camera; now I want to try it by using my mechanical cameras achieve the same brilliance. There’s a distinct advantage in using a mechanical camera, rather than a…
Read MoreThe Ripscale
Sunday was a rough day for me. Mothers’ Day is a very draining holiday. My mother passed away six years ago, and there’s a lot of emotions going through me. Not good ones. I thought about going over to Washington Park and photographing the tulips, but parking was almost non-existent. Downtown Albany was tougher to…
Read MoreThe “Single Shot, Half Shot” Project: The Beat of Officer Harris
I’m frustrated. I’ve tried creating a photographic project – my “Single Shot: Half Shot” project, in which I shoot the same roll of film through two different cameras – and I can’t get the proper film for it. For weeks, I’ve searched from here to there and everywhere for 70mm 616 film. Even the vintage…
Read MoreBlack Starlight: A Sun Trails Photo
In Greek mythology, the god Helios drove the chariot of the sun across the sky. I don’t presume to be Helios. But I DO have a plan to chronicle the path of the sun across the sky. This took a lot of planning – at least a year. Back then, Greg Dahlmann, the “Greg” of…
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